jimwhite42

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by jimwhite42 3y ago
> unless something changes, I won't be voting. I encourage anyone who feels this way to spoil your ballot paper. This sends a different signal than not voting: if there were lots of spoilt ballot papers this would be received differ
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by jimwhite42 3y ago
> What I can fairly easily imagine in the next few years with improved hardware is something like an open version of ChatGPT that has a 200 IQ and "thinks" 100 times faster than a human. It seems unlikely that if we can achieve
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by jimwhite42 3y ago
I think that when people are angry, they are more open to suggestion if you do it right. So this is a way to make people more receptive to buying a particular product or subscription, or to supporting a political cause, etc., if you don&#x2
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by jimwhite42 4y ago
I think when you don't "pretend assume good faith", you end up making less convincing counter arguments, and communicate less well in general, plus many other negative things.
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by jimwhite42 4y ago
I thought this paper was very interesting on the topic: "Mind Your Language: On Novices' Interactions with Error Messages". One of the things that comes up, is that if the error message suggests a change, one of the risks is
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by jimwhite42 4y ago
I heard Robert Wright talking about this sort of idea, I think he was inspired by Smolin. > Smolin thinks our universe may itself be a product of a kind of evolution: maybe universes can replicate themselves via black holes, so over time
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by jimwhite42 4y ago
Good comments, I mostly agree with them. > I think if you view developers through the prism of chasing dopamine highs from the pursuit of novelty, you can much better manage them. I think the crux of it for me is that you cannot really e
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by jimwhite42 4y ago
> I guess you just have to ask why people have these motivations and why they hide them. > It feels like people would act dishonestly first to seek survival (job security), but then also to seek power (promotion/influence). The f
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by jimwhite42 4y ago
I like to think about this sort of stuff in terms of strategy. The definition I use is 'strategical goals' are the things you are trying to achieve, and 'strategy' is the 'why, how, what's the rationale for the
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by jimwhite42 4y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but the example at the bottom, you can do just as much type checking with the terse command-line syntax as with what he calls the 'typed interface'.
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by jimwhite42 4y ago
Humans need a lot of nutrients for brain operation, so it makes sense that we would have a sophisticated system for working with the gut flora and fauna to support them so that they can help us digest food effectively. If this is the case,
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by jimwhite42 4y ago
Not sure exactly, he's done some level of anthropology, but isn't currently an academic as far as I can tell, not sure if he used to be one. His channel is about politics from an anthropology angle.
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by jimwhite42 4y ago
This is a good review, on the What is Politics channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJIHWk_M398&list=PLU4FEuj4v9... But it isn't a summary, it goes into a lot of detailed critique. I think each video descriptio